PAM (Partitioning around Medoid) is introduced to divide the swarm into several different subpopulations. PAM is one of k-medoids clustering algorithms based on partitioning methods. It attempts to divide n objects into k partitions. This algorithm overcomes the drawbacks of being sensitive to the initial partitions in kmeans algorithm. In the parallel PSO algorithms, the swarm needs to be divi...

Moving shadow detection is a challenging task in computer vision applications, such as surveillance, video conference, visual tracking, object recognition, and many other important applications. In this paper, region-based moving shadow detection using affinity propagation (RMSDAP) is presented, which detects shadows in terms of texture similarity. Firstly, we divide foreground image into no ov...

The fork-join queue models parallel resources where arriving jobs divide into various number of sub-tasks that are assigned to unique devices within the parallel resource. Each device in the parallel resource is modeled by M=M=1 queueing servers. A job completes execution and departs the parallel resource after all its sub-tasks complete execution. This paper analyzes N-server fork-join queues ...

In this study we propose a new ensemble model composed of several linear perceptrons. The objective of this study is to build a piecewise-linear classifier that is not only competitive to Multilayer Perceptrons(MLP) in generalization performance but also interpretable in the form of human-comprehensible rules. We present a simple competitive training method that allows the ensemble to effective...

We demonstrate sub-Poissonian number differences in four-wave mixing of Bose-Einstein condensates of metastable helium. The collision between two Bose-Einstein condensates produces a scattering halo populated by pairs of atoms of opposing velocities, which we divide into several symmetric zones. We show that the atom number difference for opposing zones has sub-Poissonian noise fluctuations, wh...

In this paper, we propose a calculation method of local dominance and enhance multiobjective evolutionary algorithms by performing a distributed search based on local dominance. We divide the population into several sub-populations by using declination angles of polar coordinate vectors in the objective space. We calculate local dominance for individuals belonging to each sub-population based o...

In this chapter, we examine how people of African descent are using an online discussion forum as a site for interrogating the existential question of “who am I?”. Contrary to the typical formulations of the digital divide as a measure of disparity in access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), we make a case for how and why ICTs are being effectively used to enable and advance...

In conjunction with the Creating Futures conference, the inaugural meeting of the National Indigenous Health and New Media Forum (NIHNMF--pronounced as 'nymph') was held at the Tanks Gallery in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. This paper describes the background to this innovative meeting of media minds. It also explores an emerging vision for addressing Indigenous health disparities through digi...